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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions through EV Adoption

We are working with the City of San Diego towards the goal of a 50% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. We’re  helping in that effort by embracing an EV future with a 100% electrified fleet.

And we’re working with other businesses in our region to help them electrify their fleets too!

Vehicle to Grid Live in San Diego

In July 2022, SDG&E flipped the switch on our region’s first vehicle-to-grid project at Cajon Valley Union School District. The project connects eight electric school buses to the grid through six bidirectional chargers that enable the buses to “fuel up” to run routes as needed and serve as batteries discharging energy back to the grid when parked. With larger batteries than standard EVs and a predictable schedule of operations, electric school buses are an innovative way to help reduce strain on California’s grid when electricity supplies are tight, such as during a heatwave. As a bonus, school districts can get paid for load reduction during grid emergencies.

Additional school bus electrification projects are planned with Chula Vista, Escondido, Grossmont, La Mesa/Spring Valley and Poway. New V2G projects are underway with Ramona and San Diego Unified School Districts.

Dole

The world’s largest producer of pineapples and bananas, Dole Foods is going electric with help from SDG&E at its Port of San Diego terminal. Our clean transportation team is supporting Dole’s transition to electric cargo-handling equipment by preparing electric infrastructure for 20 new EV chargers that will be installed to power Dole’s full fleet. Dole’s new electric trucks unveiled in April 2022 will help unload and transport more than 45 million units of individual fruit from the Dole cargo ships that bring deliveries to San Diego each week.